_THE WORLD'S BEST POETRY_ _I Home: Friendship II Love III Sorrow and Consolation IV The Higher Life V Nature VI Fancy Sentiment VII Descriptive: Narrative VIII National Spirit IX Tragedy: Humor X Poetical Quotations_ THE WORLD'S BEST POETRY IN TEN VOLUMES, ILLUSTRATED Editor-in-Chief BLISS CARMAN Associate Editors John Vance Cheney Charles G.D. Roberts Charles F. Richardson Francis H. Stoddard Managing Editor John R. Howard 1904 The World's Best Poetry Vol. IV THE HIGHER LIFE RELIGION AND POETRY By WASHINGTON GLADDEN NOTICE OF COPYRIGHTS. I. American poems in this volume within the legal protection of copyright are used by the courteous permission of the owners,--either the publishers named in the following list or the authors or their representatives in the subsequent one,--who reserve all their rights. So far as practicable, permission has been secured also for poems out of copyright. PUBLISHERS OF THE WORLD'S BEST POETRY. 1904. Messrs. D. APPLETON & CO., New York.--_W.G. Bryant_: "The Future Life." The ROBERT CLARKE COMPANY, Cincinnati.--_W.D. Gallagher_: "The Laborer." Messrs. T.Y. CROWELL & CO., New York.--_S.K. Bolton_: "Her Creed." Messrs. E.P. DUTTON & CO., New York.--_Ph. Brooks_: "O Little Town of Bethlehem;" _E. Sears_: "The Angel's Song." Messrs. HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO., Boston.--_Alice Cary_: "My Creed;" _Phoebe Cary_: "Nearer Home;" _J.F. Clarke_: "The Caliph and Satan," "Cana;" _R.W. Emerson_: "Brahma," "Good-bye," "The Problem;" _Louise I. Guiney_: "Tryste Noël;" _J. Hay_: "Religion and Doctrine;" _C.W. Holmes_: "The Living Temple;" _H.W. Longfellow_: "King Robert of Sicily," "Ladder of St. Augustine," "Psalm of Life," "Santa Filomena," "Sifting of Peter," "Song of the Silent Land," "To-morrow;" _S. Longfellow_: "Vesper Hymn;" _J.R. Lowell_: "Vision of Sir Launfal;" _Frances P.L. Mace_: "Only Waiting;" _Caroline A.B. Mason_: "The Voyage;" _T. Parker_: "The Higher Good," "The Way, the Truth, and the Life;" _Eliza Scudder_: "The Love of God," "Vesper Hymn;" _E.C. Stedman_: "The Undiscovered Country;" _Harriet B. Stowe_: "Knocking, Ever Knocking," "The Other World;" _J. Very_: "Life," "The Spirit Land;" _J.G. Whittier_: "The Eternal Goodness," "The Meeting," "The Two Angels," "The Two Rabbis;" _Sarah C. Woolsey_: "When." The J.B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY, Philadelphia.--_Margaret J. Preston_: "Myrrh-Bearers." Messrs. LITTLE, BROWN & CO., Boston.--_J.W. Chadwick_: "The Rise of Man;" _Emily Dickinson_: "Found Wanting," "Heaven." The LOTHROP PUBLISHING COMPANY, Boston.--_P.H. Hayne_: "Patience." Messrs. L.C. PAGE & CO., Boston.--_C.G.D. Roberts_: "The Aim," "Ascription." Messrs. SCOTT, FORESMAN & CO., Chicago.--_C.P. Taylor_: "The Old Village Choir." Messrs. HERBERT S. STONE & CO., Chicago.--_G. Santayana_: "Faith." The YOUNG CHURCHMAN COMPANY, Milwaukee.--_A.C. Coxe_: "The Chimes of England." II.